Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science
B.A. in Literature. May, 1984. State University of New York at Purchase; M.A. in Linguistics. May, 1989. New York University; Ph.D. in Linguistics. May, 1994. New York University.

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Personal Homepage: http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/people/meyers.html

Research Interests:

Computational Lexicography (Comlex, Nomlex); Predicate Argument Structure (GLARF, NomBank); Machine Translation and Sentence Alignment; Coreference (ACE); Corpus Annotation (Frontiers, NomBank, Pie in the Sky)

Selected Works:

Predicate Argument Structure: Design and Generation
A. Meyers, R. Grishman, M. Kosaka, and S. Zhao (2001). Covering Treebanks with GLARF. ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education.

A. Meyers, R. Grishman and M. Kosaka (2002). Formal Mechanisms for Capturing Regularizations. In Proceedings of LREC-2002.

A. Meyers, M. Kosaka, S. Sekine, R. Grishman and Shubin Zhao (2001). Parsing and GLARFing. In Proceedings of RANLP-2001.

Machine Translation and Sentence Alignment
Adam Meyers, Roman Yangarber and Ralph Grishman (1996). Alignment of Shared Forests for Bilingual Corpora. In Proceedings of Coling 1996: The 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics,  pp. 460-465.

Adam Meyers, Roman Yangarber, Ralph Grishman, Catherine Macleod and Antonio Moreno--Sandoval (1998). Deriving Transfer Rules from Dominance-Preserving Alignments. In Proceedings of Coling-ACL98: The 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 36th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Adam Meyers and Michiko Kosaka and Ralph Grishman (1998).  A Multilingual Procedure for Dictionary-Based Sentence Alignment. In Proceedings of AMTA'98: Machine Translation and the Information Soup. pp. 187-198.

Adam Meyers, Michiko Kosaka and Ralph Grishman (2000). Chart-Based Transfer Rule Application in Machine Translation. In Proceedings of Coling 2000: The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pp. 537--543.

Corpus Annotation

General
Pustejovsky, James, Adam Meyers, Martha Palmer and Massimo Poesio (2005). Merging PropBank, NomBank, TimeBank, Penn Discourse Treebank and Coreference, ACL 2005 Workshop: Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in the Sky, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

A. Meyers, A. C. Fang, L. Ferro, S. Kübler, T. Jia-Lin, M. Palmer, M. Poesio, A. Dolbey, K. K. Schuler, E. Loper, H. Zinsmeister, G. Penn, N. Xue, E. Hinrichs, J. Wiebe, J. Pustejovsky, D. Farwell, E. Hajicova, B. Dorr, E. Hovy, B. A. Onyshkevych and L. Levin (2006). Annotation Compatibility Working Group Report. ACL 2006 Workshop: Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora 2006: A Merged Workshop with 7th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-2006) and Frontiers in Corpus Annotation III, Sydney Australia

NomBank

Computational Lexicography

Comlex
Macleod, Catherine, Ralph Grishman and Adam Meyers (1994b).  Creating a Common Syntactic Dictionary of English, Presented at SNLR: International Workshop on Sharable Natural Language Resources, Nara, August, 1994.

Macleod, Catherine, Ralph Grishman and Adam Meyers (1998). Comlex Syntax, Computers and the Humanities, 31: 459-481.

Catherine Macleod, Ralph Grishman, Adam Meyers, Leslie Barrett, Ruth Reeves. NOMLEX: A Lexicon of Nominalizations. Proceedings of EURALEX'98, Liege, Belgium, August 1998.

Catherine Macleod, Adam Meyers, Ralph Grishman, Leslie Barrett, Ruth Reeves. Designing a Dictionary of Derived Nominals. Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September, 1997.

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